93 – Vaccine and Symptoms Covid-19.

Coronavirus which started way back in December in Wuhan province of China and now spread across the world. Except some of the countries which restricted the virus and implemented Train, Test, Isolate method, is the only one who succeeded.

Doctors, M.D, Virologist, researchers are still not able to learn everything about the virus, its mutation, and how to cure it. The world is still relying on the data which China is providing but what’s alarming is some people who recovered after battling the coronavirus are still facing some of the severe symptoms.

Various studies on different patients from different countries suggest that recovering from the Covid19 won’t be enough, as the story gets more complicated and recovered patients might going to face some long term complications. Many hospitalized patients experiencing blood clots, strokes, lung scarring, and heart damage, One study from Wuhan in January found that 12 percent of Covid-19 patients had signs of cardiovascular damage.

New researches may reveal new complications, and the government should support and fund them because the more we learn about the virus, the better it will be to fight against it. Things aren’t going to get better anytime soon until we found a vaccine.

87 – Grim Reality

As the world is battling to fight with coronavirus, not just people around the world but most of the world leaders are also worried about the unprecedented time ahead. Economic activities to run the country is at a halt. Different countries facing different problems and figuring out a cure before they face a worst-case scenario, which we call, recession.

Every industry is facing a grim situation, especially Airline, Tourism, and Hospitality industry, what worrisome for the industries is the migrant workers and labors on which most of the factories and inventories depends, they have moved back to their native places.

China, where it all begins, in the Wuhan province, the government is slowly lifting imposed lock-down restrictions, malls, and public places are opened for the public but citizens are still scared to step out. Shop and restaurant owners have to pay the rent to the owners, and as people no longer prefer so visit restaurants, food vendors offering home delivery just to make some bucks and survive.

The USA, which is the worse affected by covid19, with over 700,000 cases, state governors requesting to stay indoors and maintain social distancing, thousand of protestors, protesting on the streets demanding to re-open the states and lift the lock-down measures.

What future holds for us is no one knows. We just have to wait and watch.

86 – Lock-down

We exploited nature, natural resources, and wildlife. What we have learned in our class is every crisis is an opportunity, this coronavirus pandemic is the time when we need to think beyond and contemplate and let the mother nature heal.

People can no longer buy animals and cage them, because of the coronavirus pandemic which is now the whole world is facing and fighting, we are the one who is now locked down at home and animals are roaming free on the streets and reclaiming their territories. In a Chicago aquarium, zookeepers allowed penguins to wander freely and meet other animals, as humans can no longer visit zoos, zoo animals are enjoying the most, they get to roam freely and visiting each other.

Across the world, animals are venturing out on the street, from wild boars to coyotes wandering around on the empty streets, what this means for nature. Nature is thriving, factories and manufacturing units are off due to Covid19, most of the world is now stuck at home no more vehicle movement and less pollution.

Pollution level is gone down in some of the most polluted cities in the world. What this means for us is we need to respect mother nature and appreciate it instead of destroying it, we need to think not just about us but about the animals who are also part of this world, part of mother nature and not to disturb their territories which we are doing, by cutting down trees and jungles for our greed and building concrete jungles.

84 – Countries and COVID

It’s going to get worse before it gets better. While the whole world is going through a crisis, we have to keep our faith alive and believe in this line, that things will eventually get better by time.

The situation is grim and dark clouds of Covid19 hovering over the world. Everyone is waiting for a ray of hope, in this blog, I will explain how some of the major countries of the world fighting with the worse pandemic of history.

Novel coronavirus which is now a global crisis dismantled some of the strongest countries, some of the countries still coping up and figuring out how to deal with it and some countries are leading with an example by implementing strict measures to stop the pandemic.

South Korea – WHO advise countries to test, test, and test for coronavirus, some of the effective measure which was taken by the government praised globally. South Korea installed several phone booths at different locations to test people quickly, where people don’t have to wait for so long just to get their tests done. They don’t even have to wait to get their results, health officials send the report directly to their contact number.

The USA – The United stated of America which has now reportedly more cases than any other country, surpassed China, Italy, and Spain, failed to tackle the situation and took things lightly, government officials failed to impose a travel ban on time, which leads to the first case which was reported in Seattle. After six weeks when the first case was reported, officials realized to imposed a travel ban. When the other countries restricted large gatherings and asking citizens to follow social distancing, Officials continued with the spring break festival of Florida were teenagers partied together.

82 – A disaster year : 2020

In the year 2019, no one predicted or foresaw the future of how the year 2020 will be like. The new year started with the huge tension escalating between the two rival countries USA and Iran, as the USA eliminated the top military commander of Iran General Qasem Soleimani.

Before people were able to recover from that, one more devastating incident hit the world, Australia bush-fire, wildlife fire which spread rapidly and not only destroyed the Australian forests, homes, farms, and businesses and killed a lot of wild animals.

and things went downhill after that when China decided to cancel their new year celebration because of a new viral disease outbreak which turned out to be lethal as the death toll roses to 258 by the end of January. According to a few media reports, Dr. Li Wenliang was the first person who raised the alarm to the authorities and to government officials but instead of appreciating the doctor’s efforts. Chinese officials booked him and accused him of spreading rumors and making false statements. Unfortunately, Dr. Li Wenliang is no more, died because of Coronavirus. What’s heartbreaking is how China ignored initial reports of the virus outbreak and unable to curb it on time, which is now spread all over the world and became a global pandemic with over 265,495 confirmed cases and 9,785 deaths, cities and citizens are under lockdown and normal life is at a halt, hope things will get better soon.

80- Brands and COVID 19

A viral disease outbreak which turns out to be an epidemic to a pandemic, COVID 19 or novel Coronavirus as WHO(World Health Organization) declared, it took the world by storm. China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran are amongst the hardest hit countries because of COVID19.

Impacting globally, it becomes a high level of concern and a threat across the world, cities are locked down. Major conferences and sports events like Facebook F8 developers conference, NBA and India Premier League postponed or suspended.

Major brands faced a catastrophic hit because of COVID19, let’s deep dive into and see how brands are tackling and fighting against the deadly menace of coronavirus.

Amazon – Surgical facemasks and hand sanitizers two of the most essential products to keep ourselves safe from the virus are running out of stock from the stores, whereas some of the online sellers selling it on Amazon at an exorbitant price. As a preemptive measure Amazon warned and blocked the sellers who aren’t adhering to the fair price policy.

Facebook – Following Amazon’s footsteps, Facebook banned the sale of surgical face masks on its platform.

Delta airlines – When it comes to a crisis, a company’s most prominent stakeholders are its consumers. As most of the countries put the travel ban, the aviation industry hit the most and when it comes to boosting the morale of the consumers, Delta ‘s CEO Ed Bastian is the person we look for, Mr. ED circulated an email to the customers explaining how the airline is taking effective measures to curb the current outbreak. He breaks down the strategy in pointers

“We’ve Prepared”

“We’ve Learned”

“We’ve Taken Action”

Uber – Ride-hailing app Uber announced, it will delist or suspend accounts of drivers and passengers who are exposed to COVID-19, the company will also provide free disinfectants to the drivers to keep their vehicles germ free and clean.

Microsoft, Facebook, Linkedin, Amazon all the major companies ask their employees to work from home.

“What we know is a drop. What we don’t know is an ocean”

77 – Virus Attack

Ebola, Nipah, Sars, Coronavirus all of these deadly viruses created havoc in the past few years. While China is still fighting to curb the menace of coronavirus and quarantining the cities, issuing an advisory to the travelers and keeping an eye on the outbreak.

While we wonder about where do all these viruses come from, where is it all begun and why these viruses turned out so fatal. We can take a look back at the Ebola outbreak which created havoc in Africa 11,000 deaths were reported. Sars which is known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome, began in China in 2002 which killed 800 deaths. Coronavirus outbreaks in China which reportedly killed 1,500 people.

In all of these epidemics, one thing is common, it all comes from the animals and to be precise from the bats and it’s not the bat’s fault its the fault of us, we are the ones who are invading in their territories and consuming them. In Malaysia spreading commercial pig farms in the bat inhabited territory was the main reason for the outbreak. In Africa, bushmeat is very famous were fruitbats are hunted, sold and consumed.

Bats do appear to carry more human-killing viruses than any other animal, around 60 human infecting viruses. Guess we can love batman but not bats though.